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Anonymous asked:

you're not the first person to try and duplicate suburbs and small towns at urban densities. people trying that is like at least a third of what jane jacobs was objecting to.

Maybe not every community has to be the same.

Not everyone actually likes cities for what they are.  Suburbs aren’t evil in themselves, they just have too much infrastructure per taxpayer… and particularly if we remove the need for large numbers of automobiles, the math on them changes.

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I feel like there should be distinct genres for obviously nonhuman monstergirls (like harpies, the ones with giant snake torsos, Girls From The Black Lagoon assuming that's a thing, it should, that'd be cool) and monstergirls who, though actually nonhuman, use some form of illusion magic or shapeshifting to appear fully human (and possibly their real form isn't even vaguely humanoid). The former is really cool, but the latter is My Thing. I hope that doesn't make me a normie.

This is the kind of Discourse that people come to Tumblr for.

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So, as I don't have a tumblr account, in lieu of likes I wanted to tell you: I really enjoyed what I read of Whiteout, and look forward to you publishing more. Also, I'm not sure what topwebfiction rules has for stories on tumblr, but maybe look into it?

This is interesting, since it means that people without Tumblr accounts are either following my blog or being referred to Whiteout, and I have no way to gauge the number of them.

I’ll keep that ranking site in mind, Anon.

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What you call "time travel ethics" is more like "acausal ethics", people intuitively grasp the acausal negotiations that underlie our ethical systems.

In this case, I disagree.  This represents a potential recommitment to bad policy on the grounds that you or your ancestors (who are not you) did it before.  I’d say it’s more similar to a sunk cost fallacy than an acausal negotiation.

That’s why I gave an example of a 16 year old girl having a kid.  This is, clearly and obviously, a bad policy.  

And if you’re reading this, you probably either agree abortion should be legal (in which case you disagree with the logic of the argument), xor you probably agree that mass migration isn’t such a great idea (in which case you disagree with the logic of the argument).  

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Anonymous asked:

will the japanese government push Catholicism on the populace to try and increase birth rates?

Contrary to conspiracy theories circulating in some parts of this website, I am not secretly an official within the Japanese government, nor the child of any such official, nor a contractor hired on their behalf, my darling Anon.  (I consider myself an American.  This nation’s fate is my fate.)

So let’s go farm Wikipedia:

In 1873, following the Meiji Restoration, the ban was rescinded, freedom of religion was promulgated, and Protestant missionaries (プロテスタント Purotesutanto or 新教 Shinkyō, “renewed teaching”) began to proselytise in Japan, intensifying their activities after World War II, yet they were never as successful as in Korea.

Today, there are 1 to 3 million Christians in Japan, most of them living in the western part of the country, where the missionaries’ activities were greatest during the 16th century. Nagasaki Prefecture has the highest percentage of Christians: about 5.1% in 1996.[39] As of 2007 there are 32,036 Christian priests and pastors in Japan.[26] Throughout the latest century, some Western customs originally related to Christianity (including Western style weddings, Valentine’s Day and Christmas) have become popular among many Japanese.

About 2.3% of Japan identifies as Christian.

A number of Asian-Americans within America are Christian, but that does not necessarily apply to the ancestral countries.

Korea, on the other hand, is far more Christian for some reason.

According to the national census conducted in 2015, 19.7% of the population belongs to Protestantism, 15.5% to Buddhism (Korean Buddhism), and 7.9% to the Roman Catholic Church; in total Christianity is the religion of 27.6% of the Korean population.

I can’t pretend to see inside the minds of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, but apparently, while it is showing signs of strain, the LDP is in a coalition with another party closely aligned with a Buddhist religious movement…

So I’m going to guess that no, they won’t push Catholicism to try to increase birthrates, that it isn’t really part of the vision of Japanese national identity the ruling classes in Japan have.

But someone currently living in Japan would be better to ask.

With that said, given the outcomes for Protestant countries vs Catholic countries, that certainly isn’t a tradeoff I’d make until after I’d exhausted other options, like getting Japanese people to spend less time at work so they can actually meet members of the opposite sex and form families.

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